Cottageville vs Ravenswood

A side-by-side comparison of Cottageville and Ravenswood: population, income, housing, and more.

Cottageville and Ravenswood are places in West Virginia. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Ravenswood has the higher population (3,846 vs 257 in Cottageville). Ravenswood has the higher median home value ($99,600 vs $9,999 in Cottageville). Since 2019, Cottageville's population has grown faster (+277.9% vs +3.5%).

Population, income & housing

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
Population	257	3,846
Median age	40.3 yrs	40.1 yrs
Median household income	—	$45,392
Median home value	$9,999	$99,600
Median gross rent	—	$969
Housing units	80	1,634
Homeownership rate	75.0%	69.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher	63.1%	20.0%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	5.4%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
Population	68 → 257 (+277.9%)	3,716 → 3,846 (+3.5%)
Median household income	—	$40,484 → $45,392 (+12.1%)
Median home value	$9,999 → $9,999 (+0.0%)	$93,400 → $99,600 (+6.6%)
Median gross rent	—	$864 → $969 (+12.2%)

Cottageville

Population

68257

Median home value

$9,999$9,999

Ravenswood

Population

3,7163,846

Median household income

$40,484$45,392

Median home value

$93,400$99,600

Median gross rent

$864$969

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
Under 5	0.0%	10.0%
5 to 17	30.4%	13.1%
18 to 24	0.0%	9.1%
25 to 34	7.0%	8.8%
35 to 44	30.7%	14.6%
45 to 54	9.3%	8.1%
55 to 64	14.8%	18.4%
65 to 74	1.2%	8.7%
75 and over	6.6%	9.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
White (non-Hispanic)	100.0%	93.9%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.3%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.0%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	1.4%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
No high school diploma	0.0%	9.1%
High school graduate	29.1%	31.2%
Some college or associate's	7.8%	39.7%
Bachelor's degree	63.1%	13.5%
Graduate or professional degree	0.0%	6.5%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
Drove alone	89.8%	69.5%
Carpooled	10.2%	3.7%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	8.3%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	0.0%	18.5%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
1-unit, detached	61.3%	69.6%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.6%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	12.5%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	4.7%
20 or more units	0.0%	2.5%
Mobile home & other	38.8%	10.2%

Poverty & households

	Cottageville	Ravenswood
Poverty rate	4.3%	29.6%
Average household size	3.21	2.54
Mean commute (minutes)	—	21
Median year structure built	1998	1965